Advisory committee supports dipnets, shorter nets for commercial fisheries
The meeting was among a series scheduled to set recommendations ahead of the Upper Cook Inlet Finfish meeting next month
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The meeting was among a series scheduled to set recommendations ahead of the Upper Cook Inlet Finfish meeting next month
The meeting was among a series scheduled to set recommendations ahead of the Upper Cook Inlet Finfish meeting next month
A study of setnet harvest selectivity for sockeye and king salmon will be conducted by the Department of Fish and Game on a Kenai Peninsula setnet site.
A study of setnet harvest selectivity for sockeye and king salmon will be conducted by the Department of Fish and Game on a Kenai Peninsula setnet site.
A bill that would buy out commercial fishermen from the beleaguered Upper Cook Inlet fishery is again stalled in the Alaska Legislature. Senate Bill 82, sponsored by Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, R-Nikiski, would create a buyout program for commercial setnet fishermen on the east side of Cook Inlet. The approximately 450 setnetters there have been increasingly struggling economically